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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
6
A writer recounts a hot day battle with a stubborn house fly in a cramped room. The insect dodges traps, feasts on sugar, and evades the writer’s every attempt to drown or trap it, ending with the fly departing as the narrator resumes writing.
A persuasive piece urges households to fight house flies as disease carriers. It explains their life cycle from eggs to adults, the link to typhoid and dysentery, and how sanitation and proper garbage disposal reduce breeding. It calls for conscientious effort and community cooperation to eliminate flies.
Three affluent Washington men Charles Marthinson James White and Henry Cole were arrested and released on five hundred dollar bonds after F B Bliss Jr wore a coat of tar applied by Bliss in a reported attempt to break up a marriage via hypnotism. Mrs Marthinson feared a spell and sought help from her husband and friends.
The Pennsylvania railroad will finish a two mile section from Vineyard to Newton Hamilton in Mif fin county completing a four track system from Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
Yonkers Statesman notes a playful exchange about the Rock of Gibraltar. The talk touches on the Blarney Stone and the idea that Gibraltar is honeycombed with tunnels, framed in a joking dialogue between Beulah and Belle the Rock.
In a brief exchange comments reveal a writer and a reader discussing an original idea that the publisher rejected after discovery in the proof sheets. The dialogue hints at editorial intervention shaping the final manuscript and possible tension between author vision and editor demands.
A fragmentary OCR reads a Scots flavored golf quip about a golfer on the ninth hole with a playful aside on a woman seeking a husband. The text blends golf mishaps with a lyric into a humorous, period style vignette.
The bride refused the engagement before the ceremony while the groom hired seven cameras to smash. This sharp line hints at a dramatic, sensational wedding moment captured in vivid, reader engaging terms.
The New York Times notes a craze for lemon baths as a summer beauty trend. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland adopts the practice, crediting its skin softening effect learned from a Dutch Indies governor.
Hulda B. White of Philadelphia buys the firelock attributed to Alexander Selkirk Crusoe at an Edinburgh sale. The relic, once in Selkirk’s kin in Fifshire Scotland, fetched 160 dollars.
Charles Hauffman a St Louis mail collector found a gold watch in a street mail box and a note asked that it be sold and the money given to charity stating the watch had been stolen.
A brief item notes a gendered quip about how men and women seek information differently. The quote contrasts a man looking out a window with a woman reading the newspaper for guidance.
Barnard juniors stage a playful jackstone tournament for freshmen with Una Logan and Edna cales praised for skill. Self-government reportedly to award a medal amid secrecy as examinations loom.
Smuggling grows from Luzon to Manila via Laguna de Bay and Pasig. Opium, khaki cloth, and contraband goods flood Sulu, with Borneo as a base. A Manila inquiry noted a hundred boats on Borneo’s coast and ninety Chinese entering by the underground. Government plans fast cutters to curb routes.
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